darkSpyro

Just wondering if there's anyone that's tried to "maximise" the amount of gear bits for their vehicle?

My shield striker has all the upgrades for shield and weapon (no mods)

I'm been farming with shield striker by doing the first part over and over (took me about 2 hours to get to 30k gearbits)

I now get to a stage where I get about 34k but every time I redo the stage or any other way of collecting gearbits, my gearbits drop by about 1.7k and I can't get past 35K

This is a screen I have after I do the farming



Then this is the screen after I reload the stage to go through the vortex of the first stage



Anybody else come across this?

I'm currently using an iOS version of the game (version 1.2.1)

33.000 is the maximum gearbits that a vehicle can have. If you go above this, the gearbits counter continues going up, but when you remove the vehicle and load it again, it will revert to 33k gearbits. The same principle happens with characters, the maximum is 65k or 65.535 gold. Seems more like a design decision than a glitch since this happened in Swap Force too if I recall correctly.

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No... The 65535 gold limit makes sense, 65535 is the maximum number you can store with 16 bits. 33k just seems weird.

Agreed. I figured the max Gearbits would be the same as max gold, but apparently I was wrong. Well, at least it makes it easier when/if I try to get max gearbits on all vehicles.

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33.000 is the maximum gearbits that a vehicle can have. If you go above this, the gearbits counter continues going up, but when you remove the vehicle and load it again, it will revert to 33k gearbits. The same principle happens with characters, the maximum is 65k or 65.535 gold. Seems more like a design decision than a glitch since this happened in Swap Force too if I recall correctly.

This is exactly what has been happening! It'll go up, but the moment I take it out of the portal and put it back on, it just goes back down.

I just thought the gearbits would be like the gold where the counter won't go up any more and it'll just stop like the gold, it just stops going up at 65 535. Thanks for the info, I won't think it's a glitch now

Also, are mods collected in the game on the save file or is it saved on the actual vehicle? This includes the sets to change the appearance of the vehicle..

For those who used the fully-upgraded Shield Striker rich with more than 33,000 Gearbits, here's what I do:

1) I use the super-rich fully-upgraded Shield Striker to purchase medium (orange) and/or large (red) boxes from BOOM 5000.
2) Do not open the boxes yet. First, switch the Shield Striker with another Vehicle that has no Gearbits and upgrades yet.
3) After switching Vehicles, open the boxes.
4) If you got most or all of the Parts and Shouts, you'll receive 800 Gearbits for each duplicate card you get.
5) Repeat number 1.

I have a few super-rich and fully-upgraded Vehicles that I use for this type of situation.

I'm guessing you can only spend gearbits on Boom 5000?

Boom5k doesn't appear to be on the iOS version of the game, or do you have to get past a certain level for it to appear?

Well, there is an update that now allows Portal Masters to pay with real cash transactions instead of just Gearbits on BOOM 5000. But I believe it is best to spend Gearbits instead of actual money.

yeah I saw that, but it's not available on iOS

Which stage is the one you use to get 35k gearbits?

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Which stage is the one you use to get 35k gearbits?

With shield striker and his gearbit magnet weapon, I did the first part over and over for about 2 hours

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Which stage is the one you use to get 35k gearbits?

With shield striker and his gearbit magnet weapon, I did the first part over and over for about 2 hours

They're asking which course.

It's the prologue before the first chapter where a Skylander and a Land Vehicle enters what appears to be a very long tunnel of Portal energy.

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Which stage is the one you use to get 35k gearbits?

This:

yeyeye Buuzer's the man who got me onto this forums when he said he was a mod lol

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Which stage is the one you use to get 35k gearbits?

With shield striker and his gearbit magnet weapon, I did the first part over and over for about 2 hours

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Which stage is the one you use to get 35k gearbits?

This:

Thanks guys.Unfortunately i don't own shield striker.I'm replaying all the bosses since they drop a fair amount.

You don't have to use Shield Striker like Buuzer did in the video angelg. True you will have to drive (an power slid to keep them yellow...after they change back to normal)around to get the gear bits....and yeah you will miss some...so. It's a good way to get gear bits if you don't want to grind in the chapters...and to think about it....i think its faster then grinding in the chapters.

^It is faster, indeed, you are right. I have been just trying this technique and its more efficient.

My goal is to get all the decos, but I just geep getting all these toppers which I really don't like as much as the paintings.

Thought I share this with the rest. If you already have all the Winged Sapphires, then the amount of Gearbits for the new vehicles should have as followed:

8000 Gearbits for Land Vehicles
3200 Gearbits for Sky and Sea Vehicles

Ironically, those are the exact same amounts I got as refunds after buying the medium (3200 Gearbits) and large (8000) boxes from BOOM 5000.